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In the siloed world of academia, aerosols had always been the domain of engineers and physicists, and pathogens were purely a medical concern; Marr was one of the rare people who tried to straddle the divide. In March 1951, just months after the start of the Korean War, Langmuir published a report in which he simultaneously disparaged Wells' belief in airborne infection and credited his work as being foundational to understanding the physics of airborne infection. Of course Marr's gym is small, and the university benefited from the fact that Asian countries, scarred by the 2003 SARS epidemic, were quick to recognize aerosol transmission. Luckily, Marr knew one, a Virginia Tech scholar named Tom Ewing who specialized in the history of tuberculosis and influenza. [Extracted from the article] |
